Experiment: Using a SoundBlaster Live! Drive II with an Audigy 2 ZS

System Requirements:

The Problem:

I happened to have an Audigy 2 ZS with the Audigy Platinum Live Drive header, and a Live!Drive 2 from a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum.

The Question: could it work against the Audigy 2?

More Info:

Nope. Although the cable and connectors pin out (be it in reverse, requiring a 180 degree rotation of the Live Drive 2 bus cable) and the system starts, sound functions from the Audigy PCI card work correctly. The outputs on the Live Drive II emit a meaningless buzzing, and no interfaces on the Live Drive are able to function or are acknowledged by the Creative driver.